Jack Weeks

Jack Weeks (1723-unknown) was an American pickpocket and market thief from Albany, Province of New York, in the Thirteen Colonies. His parents escaped from slavery in Virginia and he started a criminal life at the age of 10.

Biography
Jack Weeks was born in Albany to a couple who escaped slavery in Virginia. They taught him to be independent and to take advantage of any opportnity to better himself. At the age of 10, Weeks began to work as a pickpocket and thief at local markets. Week attempted to pick the pocket of explorer and Templar Christopher Gist. Gist caught him in the act, but was so impressed by the boy's cheeky attitude that he hired him as an errand boy. Gist took him on travels and taught him about trade and how to mimic people of various social statuses and origins.

In 1750, Gist was hired to explore the lands west of the colonies, and so introduced Weeks to George Monro. Gist suggested the officer should take the young man on as an assistant. Weeks impressed Monro with his cleverness and adaptability. Monro taught Weeks about the Templars and their goals. Weeks admired Monro's intellect and agreed with the Templar philosophy of crowd control. When Gist joined the Templar Order in 1751, Monro agreed to induct Jack Weeks as well.

In July 1752, Weeks was present at Lawrence Washington's garden party at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia the night that Washington was killed by the Assassin Order.